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The Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks , which killed 17 people and wounded more than 40. The Intelligence Ministry also confirmed that five of the men involved in the attacks had previously fought for the Islamic State group.

Scalise arrived at the hospital in a critical state, facing "an imminent risk of death", Sava said . "That is the source of unity, and more than ever, we must embrace it", the president said. Scalise will need more operations for his injuries, but doctors can't yet predict how many are necessary. Rep. Steve Scalise's condition is continuing to improve after he was shot Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia.

Human Rights Council. The UN on Tuesday accused the government-backed Bana Mura militia in Congo of committing horrific crimes in ethnically-motivated attacks in the past few months, including cutting off toddlers' limbs and slicing open pregnant women.

Many world leaders and USA politicians urged him to stay. "We can't afford any dropouts in the tremendous human challenge to make the transition to a sustainable future", Brown said. We will continue solving this problem with or without him. "Greenhouse gas and fossil fuel reductions can affect the United States economy". Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupsi, who joined former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's " We Are Still In " campaign, along with mayors of Houston, Atlanta and ...

Barnier held "talks about talks" with May's Brexit advisor Olly Robbins and British EU Ambassador Tim Barrow in Brussels on Monday but they failed to agree on a date for the negotiations to begin, an EU official said. If the election had gone as expected, Davis would have been armed with a stronger mandate and negotiating hand than when Theresa May first became Prime Minister in July 2016.

Scalise was still in critical condition Thursday night after another surgery , "but has improved in the last 24 hours", according to a statement from the MedStar Washington Hospital Center . Following the shooting , President Donald Trump urged Americans to come together as he assumed the role of national unifier for one of the first times in his presidency.

According to police, the fire, which began on Saturday at around 2 pm (1300 GMT), was triggered by a lightning strike. Mr Gomes said at least 30 of those killed were in vehicles engulfed by flames on a road between the towns of Figueiro dos Vinhos and Castanheira de Pera.

The regime said that it had released him "on humanitarian grounds". Fred Warmbier praised his son's "performance" and President Donald Trump's administration. Young Pioneer Tours adventure travel company, based in China, reconsidered its position on taking USA citizens on tours to North Korea and will no longer organize their trips to the country, according to the agency's statement published on Tuesday.

But this can also be put down to the disillusionment with traditional parties, both on the right and left. Macron's victory has been somewhat eclipsed by the record low turnout of under 43%. With its allies, the Socialists could get fewer than 50 seats, projections showed. Socialist party leader Jean-Claude Cambadelis immediately declared his retirement from the party post.

Nearby, Palestinians fired at officers with an automatic weapon and attacked them with knives before officers returned fire, killing them. In the other incident, two attackers armed with a knife and a gun were shot by an Israeli police officer with at least two bystanders also reportedly hurt.

Five people who had been reported missing after the disaster have been found safe and well, he added. Khadija Khalloufi, who lived in Grenfell Tower , had not been seen since a huge blaze destroyed the 24-storey tower block in west London last Wednesday .

Gerard Collomb, France's interior minister, told reporters near the scene the man meant to attack the security forces and that the auto was carrying explosives. As The Two-Way has reported , a man opened fire on police in April killing one officer and wounding two others. A auto careered towards a French Gendarme van on Paris' famous Champs Elysees , and exploded on impact.

Emergency services have been faced with scenes of utter destruction inside London's Grenfell Tower following massive fire. Twenty-five housing blocks in Croydon will get fire sprinklers as part of Croydon Council's response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

He said: "We must also prepare people for the awful reality that some people may not be identified due to the intensity of the fire". It is really hard to describe the devastation the fire caused. Corbyn said on Sunday that the government has the power to take over empty apartments and offer them to the hundreds of Grenfell Tower residents left homeless by Wednesday's fire.

The Washington Post first reported Wednesday that Mueller's probe was widening to include looking into whether Trump obstructed justice. Trump also attacked the media Friday morning. "Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous 'officials, ' particularly when they do not identify the country - let alone the branch or agency of government - with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated", Rosenstein said in a statement, Fox reported.

Government spokesman Christophe Castaner said Monday on RTL radio a new government to be named in the next few days. Ms. Le Pen , a former Presidential contender , said that: "President Macron may have won the majority of parliamentary seats, but he ought to know that his ideas are not the majority in the country and that the French will not back a project that weakens our state".

They say that net debt, now below zero at -$7.8 billion, is set to rise to $18.6 billion by 2021, as the government borrows to fund its infrastructure program. While former federal treasury head Dr Ken Henry once described state property transfer taxes as a distorting influence on the efficient use of land, NSW and other mainland states have become addicted to it.

Dave Ashford, 52, said: "Someone called me and said it was him and I said "It can't be". I'm going to kill all Muslims! Another eyewitness, who gave his name as Athman, told AFP: " People were screaming: "It's a terrorist attack , it's an attack, this guy attacked us", and I had to run back and tried to save people who were still alive and giving water, helping the police.

But Merkel and he later fell out in 1999 after a party funding scandal. The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent condolences to Germany's president and to Merkel and cited him as saying Kohl "will be remembered in Russia as a resolute supporter of friendly relations between our countries".

The police searched Osborne's home close to the Cardiff golf club in the northeast of the city suburbs. A 47-year-old man has been arrested after a crowd ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians in north London . Video posted on social media shows the suspect waving and blowing kisses as he is packed into a police van. The man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and police said they believed he had acted alone.

Police arrested a man who was held by members of the public. Police officers stand guard outside a residential property in Cardiff, south Wales as investigations continue into the attack. By this she pointed a finger towards the media and public alike who treat terror attacks carried out by Muslims differently than those carried out by followers of another religion.

The low pressure is heavily weighted on the right side - in other words, most of the heavy rain, squalls & storms are over the eastern portion of the low pressure area. "We are, regardless of the track, expecting quite a bit of rain potentially out of this system", National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Wool said.

On June 24, the Prime Minister is going overseas so decision has to be taken before that", Naidu added. Apparently, reiterating the old tune, Thackeray once again pitched the names of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and agro-scientist MS Swaminathan for the top post.

Eight people were taken to hospital after the attack outside the mosque , which is also a community centre. An imam prevented a mob attack on the suspected terrorist van driver who just minutes earlier had mowed down Muslim worshippers at a mosque .

Mohammed Kozbar , chairman of the Finsbury Park Mosque , described the attack as "cowardly". "Officers were in the immediate vicinity as the attack unfolded and responded within one minute". Mayor Sadiq Khan , London's first Muslim mayor, urged residents to focus on their shared values and to stand together during an unprecedented period in the capital's history.

The Trump tweets come after the top lawyer for his transition team warned organization officials to preserve all records and other materials related to the Russian Federation probe. Coats and Rogers have testified that they were not pressured by the Trump administration. For months President Donald Trump made it known that he's not personally under investigation as part of the probe into possible campaign ties to Russian Federation, but now it appears that could be changing.

His attack was likely motivated by revenge, as Muslim terrorists have also used vehicles to kill innocent people. Police faced criticism that they did not publicly declare the Finsbury Park attack as terrorism until well into Monday morning.

Pa. That left a jury to decide whether they believed police officer Yanez on the witness stand, and they opted on Friday to acquit him. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP). Valerie Castile gave an interview after the verdict, and she did not hold back. Mr Castile had informed Officer Yanez just seconds before he was shot that he was carrying a gun.

Police said the 48-year-old man who was driving the auto has been arrested and taken to a hospital as a precaution. "The attack unfolded whilst a man was receiving first aid from the public at the scene", Basu said. After the London Bridge attack earlier this month, London mayor Sadiq Khan's office reported a 40 percent increase in racist incidents in the capital and a fivefold increase in anti-Muslim incidents.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel expressed alarm about the sudden escalation of tensions in the Gulf after Saudi Arabia and other states abruptly broke off ties with Qatar , warning of the dangers of "Trumpification" of relations in the region.

The next set of talks will begin on July 17. "It was very important and useful to start off on the right foot as the clock is ticking ", Barnier said Monday after the talks, held at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels .

We had suggested the name of M S Swaminathan so that farmers get benefited. The Shiv Sena earlier on Wednesday said that Bhagwat is the ideal candidate for president. India has not played any bilateral cricket with Pakistan since 2007, although in the winter of 2012-13, Pakistan made a short goodwill tour to India that included three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals.

For some nations - Australia and South Africa - it was a bit of a disaster. "We are so excited when we win and so devastated when we lose". In October 2015, this Pakistan side only just made it into the tournament as one of the top eight teams in the world given just days after the cut off point they were beaten by Zimbabwe and slipped to ninth.

Kushner is now represented by Jamie Gorelick , who is a partner at the firm WilmerHale. "After the appointment of our former partner Robert Mueller as special counsel , we advised Mr. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said that the panel - overseeing one of several congressional investigations - is looking forward to getting a response from the White House on whether recordings exist.

Elijah Cummings and NY and Rep. Eliot Engel say in a letter Monday that they believe Flynn may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the trip, which they believe involved a proposal to develop nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.

A Republican senator on Sunday warned against rushing a vote on a GOP bill to repeal and replace the nation's health care law, saying both parties deserve a chance to fully debate the bill and propose changes after it was drafted in secret.

The Warmbier family said North Korean officials told the USA envoys that soon after his trial in March 2016, their son reportedly became sick with botulism, an illness caused by a toxin, and fell into a coma after being given a sleeping pill, according to the Post .

Dozens of people have been reported missing since last Wednesday's early-morning blaze that struck while many who live in the building's 120 apartments were asleep. "It might be that some of those are safe and well but for whatever reason have not reached (out) to let us know". 16 bodies have been recovered from the Tower and taken to a mortuary.

He said his 20 years of frontline experience were needed in "a period of chronic uncertainty". Declaring his candidacy on the Lib Dem Voice website , Sir Vince said he is ready to "work with like-minded people in other parties" to ensure voters get the final say on any Brexit deal, with the option to stay in the European Union if the agreement on offer is not good enough.

A lot more. That's what officials were urging and residents were planning Friday as a potentially record-shattering heat wave started enveloping the Southwest United States and threatened to bring temperatures of more than 120 degrees to parts of Arizona and California next week.

Activists say a "de-escalation agreement" brokered by Iran, Russia and Turkey in May has brought little relief. Ozerov said the Russian Defense Ministry's stern reaction to the US attack gave him confidence "That neither the USA nor anyone else will take any actions that would threaten our aviation".

Darwin Martinez Torres (22) was arrested and charged with murder following the incident, which officers described as one of "road rage". Hassanen's friends say that Torres began throwing beer bottles at them, forcing them to run back to ADAMS .

Brexit talks are officially underway. "We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit ", said Barnier. He noted the European Union wants to discuss divorce terms before moving on to the shape of its future relations with Britain. While Barnier insists on the "sequencing" of talks, so that trade negotiations can not start until probably January, finding a way to avoid a "hard" customs border for troubled Northern Ireland may well involve some earlier discussion of the matter.

Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, also stumped for Handel over the weekend, while Democrat Jon Ossoff enlisted the support of Rep. Brad Carver, the chairman of a neighboring Republican Party congressional district organization, told the Washington Post that he thought the tragedy would motivate his side.

The Russia penalties are embedded in a broader bill slapping sanctions on Iran. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told a House Foreign Affairs hearing, "I would urge Congress to ensure any legislation allows the president to have the flexibility to adjust sanctions".

Chancellor Angela Merkel is telling German business leaders that she won't give up on a free trade deal between Europe and the US, and will seek broad agreement on trade at next month's Group of 20 summit. "The danger in the departure negotiations with Britain is that we don't focus enough on our own future", Merkel said at the annual meeting of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), a lobbying group.

Police have now confirmed that 79 people are now dead or missing after the fire in north Kensington, meanwhile sorrow has turned to anger amid questions around materials used to clad the buildings, the government's response and the way victims were treated have been raised.

Leaders from both the parties confirmed that Shah didn't give out any names or probable presidential candidates during the meeting but has reportedly assured Uddhav that once the BJP finalises a candidate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak to him (Uddhav).

Barnier says the two sides must reach agreement on a deal by October 2018, to give the European and British parliaments time to ratify the deal by Brexit Day in March 2019. So far she has balanced the two by having ministers from both wings in her top team or cabinet, and by carefully controlling any message on her approach to Brexit , fearful she could give away her hand to European Union negotiators.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a circuit court's ruling that declared Wisconsin's legislative maps unconstitutional. That's because while various court rulings have made it clear that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional, the US Supreme Court has not yet made a decisive ruling on the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering .